[chirp_users] Tri Band Radio

[mike-2007 at elp.rr.com]

Heh heh heh - his results are plain enough.  The Wouxuns I tested here
(144/440 and 144/220) are both plenty good enough.  The "OTHER" cheaper
radios I tested were clearly in violation.  My son-in-law bought one of the
"CHEAP BRANDS".  On his birthday I pulled the radio off his belt, tossed it
in the trash, and handed him his present... a new Wouxun.  Already
programmed.  Watching his face go from smile to shock to smile - PRICELESS!
But as I said, it isn't the owner of the cheaper radio that pays for the
problems.  But there will always be people who value price over everything
else.  Once long ago I was there too, I was a soldier living right on the
poverty line, and I would have jumped at the chance of a fully functional
H/T for peanuts, spectrum be damned.  I spent 15 years as a pollution
electronics tech on the Mexican Border.  It was the same there.  When you
are living in poverty, you burn what you can to keep your family warm,
pollutants be damned.

 

What a really Really REALLY wish for is an upgraded Yaesu FT-817, including
220, 900 and 1200 MHz.  Man, what I could do with that during the ARRL V/UHF
contests from my local 3,000 ft +++ mountaintop.  I've managed to win West
Gulf Div. in the QRP division a couple of times with just 6m-2m-70cm.  I
would even settle for an FT-918 (or some name) that was all mode on 6m, 4m,
2m, 1.25m, 70cm, 33cm and 23cm.  If you are going to dream - ...

 

Vy73 - Mike - KD5KC

El Paso, Texas - DM61rt

 

 

 

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Sent: Saturday, August 4, 2018 10:26 AM
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Subject: Re: [chirp_users] Tri Band Radio

 


Yup and here is a good page from K6BEZ showing pictures of the trash some of
these radios have been putting out since Dec 2015.  I'm curious if any of
the current radios have improved here but I doubt it.

   https://sites.google.com/site/k6bezprojects/ht-harmonic-output-testing


For a triband radio, the Kenwood TH-F6A is still an amazing little radio.  I
haven't experienced the physical fragility issues as reported in this thread
but I do know if you plug in a power cable into it's charger port "hot",
they are reknown to blow their Li-Ion charger circuit.  Not good.  It's
replacement is the D74 which is way more expensive, way more complicated,
way more bigger/heavier, etc.  Nice radio though.

--David
KI6ZHD



On 08/04/2018 09:10 AM, mike-2007 at elp.rr.com <mailto:mike-2007 at elp.rr.com>
wrote:

And Wouxun has a pretty clean transmitter too.  I have the 144/440 and the
144/220.  You get what you pay for.  Unfortunately, the folks with the noisy
transmitters don't know it... only their neighbors get the negative benefit
of the cheap radios.  A spectrum Analyzer shows the real story.  I wish more
folks would look at that.

 

Vy73 - Mike - KD5KC

El Paso, Texas - DM61rt

 

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